WEDNESDAY, Dec. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Radiation therapy forbreast cancercomes with a host of side effects, including conditions as serious as heart problems and pneumonia. Now, a new study says some breast cancer patients can safely skip radiation therapy without ...
Gastroesophageal Cancer By Jo Cavallo / December 10, 2024 Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Followed by Immunochemotherapy and Surgery May Improve Outcomes in Esophageal Cancer A phase II clinical trial investigating the safety and efficacy of a triple combination of radiation, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy in...
(HealthDay)—Instead of weeks of radiation following a lumpectomy, a new study shows that many women with early breast cancer do just as well with only a single dose of targeted radiation that is given during their surgery.
A good portion of patients who get mastectomies also need radiation therapy to the chest wall and lymph nodes, to help prevent their cancer from returning. Historically, radiation therapy for breast cancer generally occurs over a period of five to six weeks, but recent research has shown a shor...
Head and Neck Cancer Chase Doyle/April 10, 2022 Are Disadvantaged Patients Less Likely to Receive Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques for Head and Neck Cancer? Advanced radiotherapytechniques may reduce the risk of severe and debilitating toxicity associated with radiation, but not all patients have equal...
Mehta VK, Goffinet D. Postmastectomy radiation therapy after TRAM flap breast reconstruction. Breast J 2004;10:118-22.Vivek K.Mehta, DonGoffinet. (2004) Postmastectomy Radiation Therapy After TRAM Flap Breast Reconstruction. The Breast Journal 10 :10.1111/tbj.2004.10.issue-2, 118-122 /...
treatment involving surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, many patients develop resistance to these therapies during the course of disease progression, eventually resulting in cancer recurrence and metastasis [3]. Therefore, it is crucial to develop novel therapies for the treatment of breast cancer. ...
Gynecologic neoplasms: An increased expression level of estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1) promotes cancer by inhibiting ferroptosis in breast cancer cells through NEDD4L-mediated ubiquitination and degradation of CD71.150Silencing ESR1 significantly promotes ionizing radiation-mediated ferroptosis and increases the CD...
Short- vs Standard-Course Radiation Therapy for Endometrial Cancer Short-course, higher-dose vaginal brachytherapy for endometrial cancer may demonstrate comparable efficacy to more frequent, lower-dose sessions, according to a recent study published by Suneja et al in JCO Oncology Advances. Background...
A radiation oncologist, Dr. Hahn was previously the Chief Medical Executive and Gilbert H. Fletcher Distinguished Memorial Chair and Professor of... Prostate Cancer The ASCO Post Staff/December 25, 2019 RSNA 2019: MRI-Guided Ultrasound Treatment for Localized Prostate Cancer ...